MECO’2026 and CPSIoT’2026 Keynote Speakers

Conference Keynote Speakers will be announced soon.

Keynote speaker #1

University of Antwerp, Department of Computer Science, Belgium

Title: CPSIoT – The Twinning Paradigm

Abstract

The Cyber-Physical Systems (of Systems) we design, maintain and above all, evolve, over increasingly long periods of time, are ever increasing in complexity. In the meantime, demands on quality, maintainability, sustainability, etc. become more and more stringent. Using “digital twins” have been shown to enable a host of desirable extra-functional system features such as condition monitoring, fault diagnosis, predictive maintenance.
There has been a proliferation of terminology, examples and standards for digital twins. In this presentation, I will try to unify and structure these under the “twinning” umbrella, building on many existing techniques, architectures and standards from real-time simulation and execution, co-simulation, systems and control theory, IoT, knowledge management, machine learning, surrogate modelling, etc.
In the twinning paradigm, a twinning architecture (a system in its own right) is used whereby a virtual instance of a System under Study (SuS) or “asset” is continually updated with the SuS’s health, performance, maintenance, etc. status information, and this throughout the asset’s life-cycle (requirements analysis, design, production, assembly, operation and optimization, maintenance, re-purposing, disposal).
I will take a product family/line approach to structure desirable system features, the different workflows and conceptual twinning architectures needed to realize these, and finally, the different means to deploy/realize these architectures.

Keynote speaker #2

Prof. dr. Milan Prokin

University of Belgrade – School of Electrical Engineering

(Near) Future of Vehicles

Abstract: During recent decades, most vehicle manufacturers decided to start design and manufacturing of fully electric (battery only powered) vehicles (cars, trucks, airplanes, helicopters, etc.) that were initially enthusiastically accepted by buyers, but the situation is completely opposite nowadays due to many reasons that will be described in this keynote. Spoiler alert, future is still bright, but without enforcing a single vehicle solution that won’t attract most buyers.